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There was a sudden shift in the way people work during the COVID-19 pandemic. To keep business continuity, many organizations have implemented a remote working policy for employees to work from home. Strategic facility management (FM) acted to support remote working policies by developing organizational norms in an organization. Meanwhile, the human resource (HR) department chose to achieve business performance while remote working by gaining job motivation among employees. However, there is limited understanding of how well organizations adapted to the remote working policy, and what are the critical factors affecting their remote work performance. The present study aimed to explore the effect of organizational norms on remote working, on remote work productivity, and organizational commitment among Thai employees. The study conducted an online questionnaire survey to a total of 414 Thai employees from various corporate offices. Hierarchical component modeling was applied and achieved a good model fit on the measurement and structural models. Results indicated that organizational norm has a significant effect on perceived productivity and organizational commitment, while sustaining work demand. Moreover, employees’ job motivation can sustain employees’ commitment to the organization in a remote working context. These findings proposed the strategic FM guide, through which a remote working policy can further enhance FM practice.
Waynika Tanpipat; Huey Lim; Xiaomei Deng. Implementing Remote Working Policy in Corporate Offices in Thailand: Strategic Facility Management Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1284 .
AMA StyleWaynika Tanpipat, Huey Lim, Xiaomei Deng. Implementing Remote Working Policy in Corporate Offices in Thailand: Strategic Facility Management Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1284.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWaynika Tanpipat; Huey Lim; Xiaomei Deng. 2021. "Implementing Remote Working Policy in Corporate Offices in Thailand: Strategic Facility Management Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1284.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is gaining importance in the construction industry as an effective tool to communicate social citizenship. Despite the increasing attention on the role of the construction industry in disaster resilience, CSR reporting on resilience issues among construction practitioners has yet to be explored. The present study adopted the concept of disaster risk management and stakeholder theory and first established a CSR-resilience evaluation framework with 20 resilience issues and 46 indicators through a modified Delphi technique. Thereafter, a sample of 295 international contractors was selected from the Engineering News-Record (ENR) list from 2014 to 2018, and a systematic content analysis approach was conducted to analyze their CSR-related reports and compare the corresponding results among regions. Results indicated that Asian and Middle Eastern contractors have the highest and lowest levels, respectively, of CSR reporting on resilience issues. Clients’ and governments’ concerns were given the top priority by all regions, except Chinese contractors emphasized the client’s and community’s concerns. Asian and Chinese contractors showed a higher emphasis on the community’s and employees’ concerns than those of partners and suppliers, whereas the European, US/Canadian, and Middle Eastern contractors showed otherwise. The present study contributed to filling in the gap to establish a CSR-resilience indicator system for the construction industry and provided a useful reference to comprehensively understand and measure the CSR reporting on resilience issues by the construction industry.
Huey Wen Lim; Fucheng Zhang; Dongping Fang; Feniosky Peña-Mora; Pin-Chao Liao. Corporate Social Responsibility on Disaster Resilience Issues by International Contractors. Journal of Management in Engineering 2021, 37, 04020089 .
AMA StyleHuey Wen Lim, Fucheng Zhang, Dongping Fang, Feniosky Peña-Mora, Pin-Chao Liao. Corporate Social Responsibility on Disaster Resilience Issues by International Contractors. Journal of Management in Engineering. 2021; 37 (1):04020089.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuey Wen Lim; Fucheng Zhang; Dongping Fang; Feniosky Peña-Mora; Pin-Chao Liao. 2021. "Corporate Social Responsibility on Disaster Resilience Issues by International Contractors." Journal of Management in Engineering 37, no. 1: 04020089.
The unsafe behavior that is seen everywhere on construction sites is the biggest challenge for further improvement of construction safety performance. Focusing on the “human” related issues in construction safety, this paper reviews the research and practices of safety management and comes up with three key elements to look at, namely safety leadership, safety culture, and safety behavior. Through systematic exploration on the connotation of and interaction between safety leadership, safety culture, and safety behavior, a Leadership-Culture-Behavior (LCB) approach for construction safety is proposed with the kernel - leadership driven culture development and behavior control. The LCB approach emphasizes the role of safety leadership to not only directly reduce unsafe behavior but also to fundamentally change the causes of unsafe behavior through safety culture development, ultimately achieving the goal of reducing unsafe behaviors sustainably and preventing accidents. The LCB approach has been implemented in a number of railway and building projects in mainland and Hong Kong SAR, China, and Singapore. Significant improvement of L/C/B has been observed. Taking a high-speed railway project in China as an example, safety leadership, safety culture, and safety behavior of the project stakeholders at all levels were significantly improved. In the end, based on LCB, new directions and potential areas for future research of construction safety are discussed.
Dongping Fang; Yuecheng Huang; Hongling Guo; Huey Wen Lim. LCB approach for construction safety. Safety Science 2020, 128, 104761 .
AMA StyleDongping Fang, Yuecheng Huang, Hongling Guo, Huey Wen Lim. LCB approach for construction safety. Safety Science. 2020; 128 ():104761.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDongping Fang; Yuecheng Huang; Hongling Guo; Huey Wen Lim. 2020. "LCB approach for construction safety." Safety Science 128, no. : 104761.
Hospitals play a crucial role in providing emergency medical care to the local community immediately after an earthquake. While the impact of an earthquake may damage critical systems and medical facilities, the effective response of hospitals depends heavily on the capability of the medical personnel to continue delivering medical services to an increasing number of casualties. Previous studies have emphasized the need to improve hospital preparedness, but it does not explain how hospital preparedness predicts the response readiness of the medical personnel for disaster emergencies. The roles of leadership and group integration on influencing the response readiness have often been overlooked. Hence, to improve the disaster response effectiveness, this study aims to explore the impact of disaster management preparedness, leadership, and group integration on the response readiness for an earthquake. Questionnaires were developed and validated through expert interviews, in which a total of 121 valid survey responses were received from four hospitals in Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province, China. The hierarchical component modeling was performed and achieved a model fit on the measurement and structural models. Results revealed that disaster management preparedness has a significantly positive impact on response readiness. Leadership also affected group integration, which significantly mediated the relationship between management preparedness and response readiness. This study addressed the knowledge gap on the mechanism that affects disaster response readiness, thus developing a valid measurement tool. These findings offer the hospital management a guideline with which to assess the hospital response capability and further improve their response performance.
Huey Wen Lim; Zaishang Li; Dongping Fang. Impact of management, leadership, and group integration on the hospital response readiness for earthquakes. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2020, 48, 101586 .
AMA StyleHuey Wen Lim, Zaishang Li, Dongping Fang. Impact of management, leadership, and group integration on the hospital response readiness for earthquakes. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2020; 48 ():101586.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuey Wen Lim; Zaishang Li; Dongping Fang. 2020. "Impact of management, leadership, and group integration on the hospital response readiness for earthquakes." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 48, no. : 101586.
Safety climate has a significant impact on safety motivation. Most prior studies focused on how motivated employees are in a unidimensional safety motivation scale, but they have overlooked why employees are motivated to work safely. The self-determination theory (SDT) is adopted in the present study to investigate how safety climate factors can predict different types of motivation (i.e., intrinsic, identified, introjected, external), consequently, affecting safety performance. There were a total of 392 respondents from questionnaire surveys that were undertaken in both the Chinese and Malaysian construction industries. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) and path analysis were performed and achieved an invariance model fit across samples. Safety competence and supportive environment were identified as the most important factors that predict intrinsic and identified motivation in the Chinese sample. On the other hand, safety commitment and safety communication were identified to predict intrinsic motivation in the Malaysian sample. In the Malaysian sample, intrinsic motivation predicted not only safety participation but also safety compliance. This was explained by their “self-leadership,” which exerted responsibility and autonomy to the employee’s own safety. The present study contributes to the body of knowledge by revealing the interplay mechanism of different types of safety motivation (multidimensional) in the relationship between safety climate and safety performance. The application of MGCFA and path analysis advances the existing literature by enabling the identification of safety climate factors that can predict types of safety motivation and safety performance. Moreover, the comparison of results between two countries extends the body of research on safety motivation with a cross-cultural perspective. These findings provide practitioners with a guideline to make a more precise assessment of employees’ types of motivation based on which measures can be taken to improve safety management and safety performance, either in domestic or multicultural work teams.
Huey Wen Lim; Nan Li; Dongping Fang; Chunlin Wu. Impact of Safety Climate on Types of Safety Motivation and Performance: Multigroup Invariance Analysis. Journal of Management in Engineering 2018, 34, 04018002 .
AMA StyleHuey Wen Lim, Nan Li, Dongping Fang, Chunlin Wu. Impact of Safety Climate on Types of Safety Motivation and Performance: Multigroup Invariance Analysis. Journal of Management in Engineering. 2018; 34 (3):04018002.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuey Wen Lim; Nan Li; Dongping Fang; Chunlin Wu. 2018. "Impact of Safety Climate on Types of Safety Motivation and Performance: Multigroup Invariance Analysis." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 3: 04018002.
Huey Wen Lim; Dongping Fang; Feniosky Peña-Mora. Resiliency Investment Decision Making: Going Beyond Code. Construction Research Congress 2018 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleHuey Wen Lim, Dongping Fang, Feniosky Peña-Mora. Resiliency Investment Decision Making: Going Beyond Code. Construction Research Congress 2018. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuey Wen Lim; Dongping Fang; Feniosky Peña-Mora. 2018. "Resiliency Investment Decision Making: Going Beyond Code." Construction Research Congress 2018 , no. : 1.